Review Blog

Sep 17 2012

Anna dressed in blood by Kendare Blake

Orchard, 2012. ISBN 978-1-40832-072-3.
(Age: Teens) Recommended. Anna Dressed in Blood is a
brilliantly
written novel, the author, Kendare Blake, has combined spine tingling
thriller and horror, sweet romance and delicious mystery into one
excellent novel. The quote 'Get ready to sleep with the lights on
because this book has teeth, sharp ones,' made by author Stacey Kade
describes this book to the last page: it keeps you hooked and you can't
put it down.
The book bases on Theseus Cassio Lowood, (also known as Cas) a teen
ghost hunter who lives with his mum (a white witch, the nice kind) and
their black cat, Tybalt. This family travel around America looking for
ghosts, sending the harmful ones into the unknown and leaving the
harmless ones to spook their domain harmlessly. The story begins with
Cas in mid hunt, after this hunt he moves far away with his family to
Thunder Bay, residential small city to a reasonable quantity of
ghosties, but one of them Cas is really here to take, Anna Korlov, or
as the locals call her, Anna dressed in blood. The battle against Anna
begins after the Edge of the World party that the Teens hold before the
next school year. Cas has a run in with a pretty girl called Carmel,
nerdy boy Thomas and the Trojan Army, Mike, Will and Chase. They go to
Anna's old house, trying to spook Cas, not knowing that he has seen so
much more than they could ever imagine.
The way this book is written stops you from putting it down and
grabbing another, it has been beautifully written and just keeps you
reading. It is by far the best action book I have ever read.
Sarah Filkin (Student)